Undecided
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 25th, 2008 4:28 am by HL
Undecided
As an inveterate “stage-door Johnny,” I have hundreds of song lyrics floating around in my head and can produce them at a moment’s notice. Sometimes they jump out at the most appropriate time to describe a current event. In the case of the Iraq War, Sen. Barack Obama has said that even though the military surge ordered by President Bush and backed by Sen. John McCain has worked, he still opposes it. Would he have preferred all-out defeat or an endless quagmire, which was where things appeared to be heading before the surge? During the primary campaign, Obama said, if he were elected president, he would pull most — if not all — U.S. troops out immediately. He later added that before ordering a retreat, he would first consult commanders on the ground. Then he said he might have to “adjust” his timetable, which he said was 16 months. When the left went berserk over what it regarded as a broken promise to unilaterally withdraw, Obama said he was sticking to his 16-month timetable and had not changed his position.
